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New Center for AnimalHuman Studies
Category: UncategorizedTags: Center for AnimalHuman Studies, Centrum voor DierMens Studies, human-animal studies, human-animal-relationsThe new Center for AnimalHuman Studies in the Netherlands is a platform for researchers, teachers, students and others in the Netherlands who focus on the relationship between humans and other animals.
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Winternachten Festival: Writing Climate (In)justice
Category: UncategorizedTags: Alexis Wright, Chihiro Geuzebroek, climate injustice, climate justice, Fiep van Bodegom, Joëlle Koorneef, Leena Norms, literature, Sanam SheriffOur alumna and former student assistant Joëlle Koorneef curated and produced a programme on literature and climate (in)justice for Winternachten Festival. The festival takes place online on the evening of 14 January 2021.
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EHC SPECIAL EVENT: YWY, THE ANDROID
Category: UncategorizedOn the occasion of their solo exhibition at 1646 in Rotterdam, artist and filmmaker Pedro Neves Marques will screen their work “YWY, the Android”, followed by a lecture and Q&A. In the video, set in a present-future, YWY, an indigenous android, talks with a GMO corn crop in the agricultural…
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Cow language and multispecies ethics: your reading recommendations
Category: UncategorizedIn our meeting with Leonie Cornips, we asked all participants for one reading tip connected to the lecture on how dairy cows relate to humans and to each other, sourcing the wisdom of our community via the Zoom chat function. These are your recommendations.
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More than the Human Past. Historians, Eco-history and Environmental Humanities
Category: UncategorizedThis is an evaluation of the EHC-KNHG congres on November 19th, including the YouTube links to the lectures and an environmental humanities reading list.
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ENTANGLEMENTS: Rosemary Joyce on Nuclear Landscapes
Category: UncategorizedTags: environmental art, landscape archaeology, nuclear aesthetics, nuclear storage, nuclear waste, Rosemary JoyceThe global nuclear industry has for decades used sites like Stonehenge to justify designs for long-term markers to be placed over nuclear waste repositories to ensure they are not violated in distant, imagined futures. Alternative proposals propose a variety of aesthetic installations as alternative ways of marking the contaminated landscapes…
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ENTANGLEMENTS: Cara Daggett on Petro-masculinity
Category: UncategorizedFar-right movements are on the rise worldwide, and many have embraced both misogynistic and anti-climate action positions. While these resentments are often treated separately, in this webinar, Cara Daggett will discuss their interconnections through the concept of petro-masculinity.
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ENTANGLEMENTS: Leonie Cornips on Dairy Cow Relations
Category: UncategorizedLeonie Cornips will present her research on how the dairy cow makes social meaning in her barn within the power dynamics of industrial farming.
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ENTANGLEMENTS, a new online event series by the Environmental Humanities Center
Category: UncategorizedTags: entanglement, environment and society, environmental history, environmental humanities, environmental humanities center, environmental studies, history, online events, webinar, webinar seriesBeginning in December 2020 and running until summer 2021, the Environmental Humanities Center presents a series of webinars with scholars from environmental humanities and beyond. Click to learn more!
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Registration open: life stream conference ‘Cultural perceptions of Safety’
Category: UncategorizedThis two-day conference will bring together scholars from eight different countries and various humanities disciplines to pursue fluctuations in conceptualizations, expressions and feelings of safety over time as well as in cultures of surveillance and safety practices. Speakers will address a variety of topics, ranging from narratives and visual discourses…